January 2008
PROGRAM 0801
UPLINK January 3
RELEASE DATES January 3-10
TWO MORE ALLEYMAN: Great songs by the used-to-be-famous songwriters, Percy Wenrich and Pete Wendling.
PROGRAM 0802
UPLINK January 10
RELEASE DATES January 10-17
BEGINNING WITH BODY AND SOUL: A great song by an unknown songwriter leads to other songs it influenced and other songs he wrote.
PROGRAM 0803
UPLINK January 17
RELEASE DATES January 17-24
BACK TO THE CAROLINA YOU LOVE: A major songwriter in his own day, largely forgotten now, Jean Schwartz is worth remembering for "Chinatown," "Rock a Bye Your Baby," and many more.
PROGRAM 0804
UPLINK January 24
RELEASE DATES January 24-31
UNUSUAL STORIES: A bushel of ballads set to popular melodies that tell the stories of everybody from Thelonius Monk to a teenage queen, from the Police Gazette and a Boy Named Sue. And all the while, the world goes 'round.
February 2008
PROGRAM 0805
UPLINK January 31
RELEASE DATES January 31-February 7
JUBILEE: In the years after Emancipation, as spirituals became a recognized part of American song, a new kind of singing brought them to a broad public.
PROGRAM 0806
UPLINK February 7
RELEASE DATES February 7-14
OFF-BEAT LOVE: There's always been an element of something wacky just beneath the surface of perfect love, and sometimes it pops through. What happens when romance undergoes a compound fracture?
PROGRAM 0807
UPLINK February 14
RELEASE DATES February 145-21
BEFORE I MET YOU: Now that we've met, things couldn't be better, but that entitles us to wonder what it would have been like if we'd only met before.
PROGRAM 0808
UPLINK February 21
RELEASE DATES February 21-28
HOMETOWN: It's a place you leave and return to if you can, and songs accompany you on both legs of the journey.
March 2008
PROGRAM 0809
UPLINK February 28
RELEASE DATES February 28-March 6
SWING GOES, I GO TOO: There can't be popular music without whatever it is that jazz gives it. Part of the answer is swing, so it soon became something we sang about.
PROGRAM 0810
UPLINK March 6
RELEASE DATES March 6-13
THE NEW WOMAN: Even before World War I, things were starting to change, especially for "the new woman" who insisted on making her own place in the world.
PROGRAM 0811
UPLINK March 13
RELEASE DATES March 13-20
THE IRISH WORKING CLASS: To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, here are songs for the Irish-Americans who helped to build the country when the work was hard and the rewards small.
PROGRAM 0812
UPLINK March 20
RELEASE DATES March 20-27
I'VE GOT A RAINBOW WORKING: Nobody was more distrusting of clichés than lyricist Yip Harburg, or more susceptible to wonder. No wonder he wrote "Over the Rainbow."
PROGRAM 0813
UPLINK March 27
RELEASE DATES March 27-April 3
DEPRESSION DEPRESSION: Losing a job can get you down, and these songs follow the mood where it takes you.
April 2008
PROGRAM 0814
UPLINK April 3, 2008
RELEASE DATES April 3-10, 2008
TILL IT'S OVER THERE – On the 90th anniversary of our entry into World War I, here are the songs that took us up and through April 1917.
PROGRAM 0815
UPLINK April 10, 2008
RELEASE DATES April 10-17, 2008
I WENT TO A MARVELOUS PARTY – Popular songs are generally upbeat and optimistic. They revel in good times. So parties are a suitable setting for the celebration.
PROGRAM 0816
UPLINK April 17, 2008
RELEASE DATES April 17-24, 2008
A LAND OF FANCY – Not fairy tale kingdoms, exactly, but improbable, unlikely, exotic, and downright made up places
PROGRAM 0817
UPLINK April 24, 2008
RELEASE DATES April 24-May 1, 2008
RODGERS & HART IN NYC – New York City born and bred, Rodgers and Hart loved New York but also looked at it clear-eyed in songs that combined the wiseguy wit and blunt emotionalism you expect from New Yorkers.
May 2008
PROGRAM 0818
UPLINK May 1, 2008
RELEASE DATES May 1-8, 2008
GET OUT THOSE OLD RECORDS – You can't separate popular music from electronics, from phonographs to the radio to piped-in elevator music.
PROGRAM 0819
UPLINK May 8, 2008
RELEASE DATES May 9-15, 2008
A DIFFERENT VIEW OF MOM – Songs with a little schmalz, a little more reality, even on Mother's Day.
PROGRAM 0820
UPLINK May 15, 2008
RELEASE DATES May 15-22, 2008
WALTZING IN TIN PAN ALLEY – From the time Tin Pan Alley opened for business through the heyday of the Broadway musical, no song form was more ubiquitous than the waltz.
PROGRAM 0821
UPLINK May 22, 2008
RELEASE DATES May 22-29, 2008
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS – Using our songs to commemorate Memorial Day by celebrating the men and women in the service.
PROGRAM 0822
UPLINK May 29, 2008
RELEASE DATES May 29-June 5, 2008
I WANT TO BE A POPULAR MILLIONAIRE – It's okay to be a ritzy in a popular song as long as you don't put on airs. Think Fred Astaire.
June 2008
PROGRAM 0823
UPLINK June 5, 2008
RELEASE DATES June 5-12, 2008
TAKE A LITTLE TIP FROM FATHER – For Father's Day, songs about Dad, but with a sense of humor.
PROGRAM 0824
UPLINK June 12, 2008
RELEASE DATES June 12-19, 2008
FOLLOW THE FLAG – There was a time when people celebrated Flag Day by showing the flag and going to a parade. No more, but we've still got the songs.
PROGRAM 0825
UPLINK June 19, 2008
RELEASE DATES June 29-26, 2008
CALL OF THE SOUTH – It calls us back home, back home to what we know and miss, anywhere beyond the Mason-Dixon line.
PROGRAM 0826
UPLINK June 26, 2008
RELEASE DATES June 26-July 3, 2008
UNCLE SAM – Saying "uncle" isn't surrender when the uncle's name is Sam, and we've got the songs to prove it.
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